Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau | |
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Abbreviation | EKHN |
Type | Landeskirche, member of the Evangelical Church in Germany |
Classification | Protestant |
Orientation | United Protestant (Lutheran & Reformed) |
Director | Kirchenpräsident Volker Jung |
Director | Kirchenpräsident Volker Jung |
Associations | Union Evangelischer Kirchen, Reformed Alliance |
Region | 13.358,77 km² in southern Hesse, parts of Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) |
Headquarters | Darmstadt |
Origin | 1933 |
Merger of | Protestant Churches of Hesse, Nassau and Frankfurt |
Members | 1,731,883 (2009) = 36% of total population |
Official website | http://www.ekhn.de/ |
The Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (German: Evangelische Kirche in Hessen und Nassau, EKHN) is a United Protestant church body in the German states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate.
There is no bishop and therefore no cathedral. One of its most prominent churches is Katharinenkirche in Frankfurt am Main. Dating back to the union in the Duchy of Nassau in August 1817, which is before the Prussian Union of September 1817, it is the first United and uniting church in the world. The EKHN is a full member of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), and is based on the teachings brought forward by Martin Luther during the Reformation. The Church President is Volker Jung () (since 2009). It is a united church, combining both Calvinist and Lutheran traditions. Member of the Reformed Alliance in Germany. The Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau is one of 22 churches in the EKD, has approximately 1,810,000 members in 1,184 parishes (December, 2005). The territory of the EKHN includes the territories of the former People's State of Hesse and the Prussian Wiesbaden Region, which now form the southern and western part of the German state of Hesse and portions of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rhenish Hesse). It's the most important Protestant denomination in this area. The church is a member of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe.